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Hudson River

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    New Round of Food Trucks Announced for Choice Streets; Event Officially Sold Out

    Fork in the Road is proud to announce another series of participants for the Choice Streets tasting event, to be held on a Hudson River pier with the Battleship Intrepid towering overhead.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2012

    St. Patrick's Day, Columbia County

    The Saint Patick's Day feast at St. Peters in Spencertown, NY As I drove down the meandering highways and country lanes of Columbia County -- just southeast of Albany sandwiched between the Hudson River and the MA border - I passed sign after sign advertising corned beef and cabbage. Every rickety ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 15, 2012

    FACE-OFF

    Will the Nets get revenge on the Knicks?

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2011

    New York is Nothing But Green Screen

    The above video demonstrating visual effects in movies and television proves what we've all secretly known for years: New York City doesn't exist. Times Square, the Hudson River, and the UN building are just post-production illusions. Instead, we live in a world made up of nothing but green walls.

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Happy 80th Birthday, George Washington Bridge!

    via Wikipedia​On October 24th, 1931, you were dedicated as the "Hudson River Bridge." Soon after, you were renamed, and now everyone calls you George. As the world's busiest bridge, we know you have a lot on your plate today. We just want to quickly say, "Happy Birthday," and let you know how ... More >>

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    September 28, 2011

    Fall Hudson River Cruise to Bear Mountain

    via Wikipedia​On October 24th, 1931, you were dedicated as the "Hudson River Bridge." Soon after, you were renamed, and now everyone calls you George. As the world's busiest bridge, we know you have a lot on your plate today. We just want to quickly say, "Happy Birthday," and let you know how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    New Yorkers, You Are Slowly Being Surrounded By Sewage

    ​After a fire on Wednesday night at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Harlem shut the plant down and forced the city to start pumping raw sewage into the Hudson, we warned yesterday that the Hudson was not exactly fit for swimming or kayaking or fishing or walking near and breathin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Fourth of July Fireworks in Time-Lapse

    Fireworks in Five Seconds--NYC from John Huntington on Vimeo.Already feeling nostalgic for the Fourth of July as you reach the end of your first day back to work? Watch this 20-second time lapse made of the sunset and Macy's fireworks over the Hudson River. It will make you long for a hamburger and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 22, 2011

    RED, WHITE, & YOU

    More things to do on your day off!

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    The New World Financial Center Will Be Lousy With Food

    A lot to swallow.Brookfield Office Properties​It looks like the Milk Street Café won't be the only mega-food hall to make a massive footprint in the Financial District.

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2011

    BIRD'S-EYE VIEW

    Bring your binoculars to Riverdale

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Floater in the Hudson River

    ​Shortly after midnight Saturday, a passing boater in the Hudson River discovered a body floating off 43rd Street and 12th Avenue. The NYPD Harbor Unit landed the floater on Pier 81; he was, of course, DOA at the scene. No ID at press time. He was described as a bearded white male, 20 to 30 years ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2010

    ROCK AQUATIC

    Built to Spill try not to sink the ship

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    July 20, 2010

    SUNSET, SUNSET

    Norma Desmond is ready for her close-up again

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2010

    Corn Invades the Farmers' Markets Along With Yellow Raspberries, Purple Sugar Snaps, and Reishi Mushrooms

    ​Sweet bicolor corn is the first variety to hit the greenmarket this summer. It seems that corn arrives earlier and earlier at the farmers' markets each year. While we originally associated the crop with late summer and fall, a few years ago it began to arrive in early August, then late July. ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2010

    Fourth of July Fireworks Cruise

    ​Sweet bicolor corn is the first variety to hit the greenmarket this summer. It seems that corn arrives earlier and earlier at the farmers' markets each year. While we originally associated the crop with late summer and fall, a few years ago it began to arrive in early August, then late July. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Gear Up: Friday Is National Bike to Work Day

    ​The signs sometimes do align, as in the case of tomorrow, which is our humble nation's official Bike to Work Day. It's been bike month all of May, in fact, but if you've been focused on other things -- masturbation month, anyone? -- well, it's not too late to get involved.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    D. A. Pennebaker Is Directing A Webcast For the National

    ​Right, so, the man who made Don't Look Back and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars will apparently be directing a YouTube stream of a National concert, scheduled for May 15th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show's a benefit for the Red Hot Organization, according to Brooklyn Vegan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    It's a Bird, It's a Military Plane...

    ​Don't freak. A military plane will be buzzing down the Hudson River and landing at La Guardia at around 11:15 today. Notify NYC alerted us to the news this morning, and we appreciate that. Because that whole Air Force One thing last year? Not cool, guys.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    New Greenmarket May Be Going in at Pier 40

    ​Long ago, Pier 40 berthed cruise ships. The April issue of the monthly newspaper WestView reports that a new farmers' market may be in the works for Pier 40, the hulking complex that sits at the western end of Houston Street.

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2010

    Indian Point License Threatened Over Water Quality, Dead Fish

    ​A draft report sent yesterday from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to Entergy, the operators of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in Buchanan, NY, found that Indian Point's impact on Hudson River sturgeon was serious enough to deny the plant a Water Quality Certificate. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Chesley Sullenberger, Help Us! Bird-Plane Collisions Soar Toward Record

    Reported collisions between airplanes and birds are climbing toward 10,000 for calendar year 2009, and the figures aren't even final yet. Why? Authorities naturally speculate that reports have increased since hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger fought off geese who killed his engines and and ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2010

    Class Action Listings 2010

    Reported collisions between airplanes and birds are climbing toward 10,000 for calendar year 2009, and the figures aren't even final yet. Why? Authorities naturally speculate that reports have increased since hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger fought off geese who killed his engines and and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    "May The Holidays Bring An Oscar for Mo'Nique...

    ​And a pawn shop willing to give her equal value for it." That's what the holiday card from the famed comedy club Carolines on Broadway says, among other things. And here are some of the other things:

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Man Evades Cops, Jumps Off George Washington Bridge

    ​Last night around nine a guy pulled his red Pontiac Grand Prix out of the Sunoco station in Englewood Cliffs and headed onto the George Washington Bridge. As he had failed to yield to traffic, a police car came after him. They tried to pull him over, but he pulled the old stop-and-start on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Recession-Wracked Harlem Restaurants Will Pay Your Car Fare

    ​Restaurants aren't doing so well anywhere in New York. (We saw the headline "Recession is not all bad news for NYC eateries" in Crain's, and the story turned out to be that it was not all bad news for diners -- lower prices at fancy restaurants!) The ViVa (Viaduct Valley) Harlem Restaurant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    CMJ Farewell: Pig Destroyer, Eyehategod, and Goatwhore, On a Boat (Where Else?)

    All photos by yr brave correspondent, who writes: "I got punched in the face but I gave it back worse."​Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore Rocks Off Concert Cruise, Hudson River Saturday, October 24 The kid in the Suicidal Tendencies t-shirt went down hard, his spindly dark form an inverse ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2009

    ODE TO FREE RENT

    Natalie Merchant celebrates the grand opening of Poets House

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    September 1, 2009

    Deer Tick

    Natalie Merchant celebrates the grand opening of Poets House

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Urban Foraging: Blackberries

    ​ One cup of blackberries, representing about 15 minutes of picking, and bursting with juice. Late summer in the city--generally in the month of August--is the time to forage for blackberries. Bring gloves, since the branches on which the berries grow are covered with serious thorns, and long ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    Scanner+Mountains

    ​ One cup of blackberries, representing about 15 minutes of picking, and bursting with juice. Late summer in the city--generally in the month of August--is the time to forage for blackberries. Bring gloves, since the branches on which the berries grow are covered with serious thorns, and long ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    Fireworks

    ​ One cup of blackberries, representing about 15 minutes of picking, and bursting with juice. Late summer in the city--generally in the month of August--is the time to forage for blackberries. Bring gloves, since the branches on which the berries grow are covered with serious thorns, and long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    I, Locavore--Awesome Deal on Local Chardonnay

    The crisp chardonnay of Millbrook Vineyards and Winery (click to taste) As a wine enthusiast, you're no doubt familar with the reasonably priced and often good wines of the North Fork of Long Island, and the pricier product of New York's pristine Finger Lakes region. But a lesser known wine reg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    More Flight 1549 Porn

    Here's the highlight reel of a Con Ed surveillance tape of US Airways Flight 1459 going down on the Hudson River. You can see the first moments of the plane in the water, people filing onto the wings (which from this distance looks rather calm and orderly) and rescuers from the New York Waterways ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    International Booze Tastings

    In the event that you're one of the few people in the city who still have the cash to blow on booze tastings, there are two big ones coming up on Monday, January 26th.The Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux is in town to promote the 2006 vintage. During the day, they'll have a trade tasting, and in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2009

    NTSB Tries to Extract Downed Airliner, Fails

    The tail of Flight 1459 bobs out of the water, surrounded by disaster personnel. (click to enlarge) Saturday, the city tried for a second time to pull doomed US Airways Flight 1549 out of the soup. After the belly flop into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon, the corpse of the airline--from wh ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 20, 2008

    HOWLING AT THE MOON

    Kiki Smith and Nico Muhly bring she-wolves to life

  • NYC Life

    June 12, 2007

    White Briefs and Jello Shots

    Where—and how—men party in this town

  • NYC Life

    July 18, 2006

    Wednesday 7/26

    Where—and how—men party in this town

  • NYC Life

    June 13, 2006

    Pride Party Roundup

    Before—and after—the parade passes by

  • NYC Life

    August 16, 2005

    The Squid Are Coming

    Related is trying to get a zoning variance so they can build even bigger

  • NYC Life

    September 14, 2004

    Listings

    Related is trying to get a zoning variance so they can build even bigger

  • NYC Life

    June 15, 2004

    Listings

    Related is trying to get a zoning variance so they can build even bigger

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Eight Wonders of the City Parks

    Paddling and Galloping

  • News

    September 4, 2001

    Collision Course

    Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

  • NYC Life

    January 16, 2001

    1972 Sailboat

    Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

  • NYC Life

    March 21, 2000

    Flea Circus

    photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

  • News

    March 7, 2000

    Shock Corridor

    How a Long-Dormant Law Could Spark a Hudson Valley Power Plant Boom

  • News

    February 9, 1999

    West Village, R.I.P.

    Developers target a legendary neighborhood's last open spaces

  • News

    August 25, 1998

    The River Wild

    Exploring Manhattan's Hudson Coast before a park plan paves it over

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